Word: hcecp
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...employees. Thanks to the work of the more than a thousand people who attended this rally and previous ones like it, the crisis of poverty on Harvard’s campus is finally beginning to get the attention it deserves. Now, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) and University President Lawrence H. Summers must provide the right solution...
...wage floor that rises along with the cost of living, the immense power imbalance between Harvard and the workers who maintain the University will return poverty to our campus within a few years. And in a few more years, its cure will be even more difficult to attain. The HCECP and the Harvard administration cannot diffuse our moral indignation by paying the community lip service with short-term fixes that force it to repeat the same battles every few years...
...HCECP is charged with the task of collecting data on employment conditions at Harvard, soliciting the views of the committee and presenting recommendations that “reflect a humane concern for the well-being of all the individuals who work here.” The data they have collected show that real wages of Harvard’s workers have fallen faster and farther than anyone but the workers themselves could have imagined. Hundreds of letters from students, workers, faculty and community members have argued that a living wage floor, a ban on outsourcing service work and protection...
...weeks ago, I had the privilege to speak at a public forum sponsored by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), the group formed after last spring’s student sit-in in Massachusetts Hall to advise University President Lawrence H. Summers on a set of significant labor questions. I was asked on that occasion to articulate the “center left” view on the living wage issue, a position that I believe I share with many undergraduates and a position that leads me respectfully to call upon the University to implement a living...
...wrote to the committee on Nov. 14 that it should not feel obliged to present “any elaborate justification for a wage floor,” portraying the search for such a justification as a “distraction” from their deliberations and hoping that HCECP “will spend no time” considering...